The People Vs Tech
Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But with our fragile political systems threatened by this digital revolution, what do these changes – and the likes of Cambridge Analytica –...
Speaker(s): Jamie BartlettHanging Out With The Outsiders
For two years, Jamie Bartlett went undercover with some of our most radical political outsiders. Immersed with with the likes of Tommy Robinson, green militants, radical futurists and free love...
Speaker(s): Jamie BartlettThe Imagination as Essential to Faith
This seminar is anathema to all who believe that Jesus was a silent baby born in a snowdrift with a mum dressed in blue. But it might open up some avenues to spiritual adventure, without taking...
Speaker(s): John BellRadical Reading: Provocation from Pluto – Decolonising the University
Gurminder Bhambra explores the movements and campaigns known as ‘decolonising the university', asking questions such as ‘why is my curriculum white' and bringing attention to the Black,...
Speaker(s): Gurminder BhambraThe Science of Fate
How predictable is your future? Hannah Critchlow delves into the latest scientific research to show the extent to which the course of our lives are hardwired into our brains, from what we choose to...
Speaker(s): Hannah CritchlowNew Wit. New Wisdom.
Artificial intelligence is changing the human person and human community--but to what end? Professor Ilia Delio discusses the vision of Teilhard de Chardin for an AI world where the religious...
Speaker(s): Ilia DelioRadical action Part 2: High level Non Violent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
A chance to understand, explore and theologise over some of XRs most Radical planned actions Roger Hallam (Co-founder XR) Holly-Anna Petersen (XR Activist) Richard Barnard (XR Activist) Extinction...
Speaker(s): Extinction RebellionGreen Economies
Politicians seem to only to talk in terms of the costs of going green. But what about the potential jobs, techonology and innovation? What are the challenges and opportunities of steering towards a...
Speaker(s): Grace BlakeleyHow to Save the World from Financialisation
Wit, wisdom and...economics don't often get together in the same field. But stagnant productivity, lack of investment and rising inequality indicate that our finance-led growth economy is broken....
Speaker(s): Grace BlakeleyEvent Horizon: Faith In The Future
The world's religions have stories about the way the future will go. Those different stories and how literally we take them can have profound implications for our living together in the present....
Speaker(s): Event Horizon: How The Way Faith Sees The Future Affects Us All In The Present, Festival FriendsClimate Emergency? What does that mean? And what are XRs demands?
Climate Change and ecological collapse has been on the edges of public consciousness for decades so why has it become so important at this moment in history? In this session we will explore some of...
Speaker(s): Extinction RebellionDon’t Touch My Hair: crowning glory, power and identity
Charting the cultural history and symbolism of Afro-textured hair, Emma Dabiri's work sweeps from pre-colonial Africa to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids, showing how black...
Speaker(s): Emma DabiriPeak Inequality and Food Bank Use
The Trussell Trust's CEO Emma Revie will be talking with Danny Dorling on his latest book Peak Inequality, and how we can create a future without the need for food banks in the UK.
Speaker(s): Danny Dorling, TrussellWit as a Weapon: Art against Fascism
In the face of today's increasingly extreme politics, what can we learn from how artists have made subversive wit a weapon and deployed absurdity and a truer wisdom in the face of authoritarian...
Speaker(s): Debbie LewerThe Politics Of Climate Change
A politics that looks beyond national borders and seeks to build international cooperation and consensus must play a part in the fight to avert climate breakdown. As the UK teeters on the edge of a...
Speaker(s): Catherine Rowett